Viktor Gamov

Viktor Gamov is a Developer Advocate at Confluent, the company that makes a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka.
Working in the field, Viktor Gamov developed comprehensive expertise in building enterprise application architectures using open source technologies. He enjoys helping different organizations design and develop low latency, scalable and highly available distributed systems.
Back in his consultancy days, he co-authored O’Reilly’s «Enterprise Web Development.»
He is a professional conference speaker on distributed systems, Java, and JavaScript topics, and is regular on events including JavaOne, Devoxx, OSCON, QCon, and others. He blogs at http://gamov.io and produces the podcasts Razbor Poletov (in Russian) and co-hosts DevRelRad.io.
Follow Viktor on Twitter @gamussa, where he posts there about gym life, food, open source, and, of course, Kafka and Confluent!

Recent Presentations

When the time comes to choose a distributed streaming platform for real-time data pipelines, everyone knows the answer: Apache Kafka. And when it comes to deploying real-time stream processing applications at scale without having to integrate some different pieces of infrastructure yourself? The answer is Kubernetes. This session discusses best practices for running Apache Kafka and other components of a streaming platform such as Kafka Connect and Schema Registry as well as stream processing apps on Kubernetes. It covers the challenges and lessons learned from developing the Confluent Operator for Kubernetes as well as different custom deployments on various Kubernetes installations​.